They didn't get what they wanted one way so they're trying it another way. https://news.sky.com/story/top-engl...alks-to-join-european-premier-league-12109175 Liverpool were not this good 5 years ago, United are not this good now, but they're trying to cream off the money. I've watched and loved football for years, I've hated the money that has come into the PL, now it's getting worse. I've said it before, but I really am done with football if this happens.
Great. Not only is this s---bag idea being raised again but now FIFA is involved. That this organization might find a way to make even more money out of club football is just insane. I guess we're just calling FIFA all powerful now and the only bright side of the scheme is that it might kill the pro game for good. Yay. Since it's Halloween season I wish everyone involved in this every hellish torture offered is the Saw series, Hellraiser, etc. Just f---ing evil.
How are big clubs who are used to winning going to react when they finish in the bottom 3 of a European Premier League? In US sports like the NBA and NFL, bad teams get rewarded with high draft picks that can turn around a franchise in a couple years. In Europe, it will be spend, spend, spend. More transfer fees. Higher wages. More players left on the sidelines like Ozil and Bale because they make too much. It will generate revenue, sure, but your backup left back will be making 200k a week. And if the goal is to maximize revenue, why these clubs? London is a big, wealthy city, but why do they need 3 clubs from one city? Why 3 clubs from NW England? Why not a club from big cities like Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Lisbon?
Because the goal is to maximize the revenue for the clubs who are big right now. These are the giants of today and they want to stay that way forever, so f--- everyone else who was big once or has ambition for the future. If you happened to miss out when the gates are closed then it sucks to be you. God forbid the likes of Napoli, Leicester, and Sevilla go on a Fergie-like run and dislodge one of these sacred cows, so best to act now and lock the doors while you have a seat at the table.
This idea *might* work if they put some sort of salary cap and revenue sharing each each team like the American Major sports leagues have, notably the NFL. Even so, with FIFA is directly involved, the different tax rates from represented countries, and a virtually unlimited way to pay players "under the table" (like many American Colleges have been found to do), any semblance of a "Financial Fair Play" will be in name only and certainly not in practice.
I remember this idea being talked about in the early 2000s. For me even if they did try to set it up, they still have plenty of questions that need to be answered first. Otherwise it will be a bigger cluster******** than Brexit.
If there were salary caps in football, perhaps maybe dynasties like Bayern Munich would not exist and it would make the Leagues more competitive across the table. MLS has a salary cap in place with an exemption for "designated players" but other than that that's it. Salary caps are in place to make "fair play" actually happen, that is the thing I find about most team sports that don't have one (like MLB and most European football leagues including the EPL and the Bundesliga), and I think it's disgusting because 1) it stacks a lineup that nobody else can touch, and 2) it makes it almost impossible for smaller clubs to compete, (i.e.: Leicester City, VfL Wolfsburg, AFC Bournemouth, etc.) and that creates pretty much a virtual monopoly, and that's why clubs like the Dodgers and Yankees (in MLB) and clubs like Bayern Munich exist and that's not right!!!